24-610: Peppermint Grove is an affluent western suburb of Perth , Western Australia on the north bank of the Swan River at Freshwater Bay. Its local government area , the smallest in the country, is the Shire of Peppermint Grove . The suburb was named after the Swan River peppermint trees ( Agonis flexuosa ) lining many streets. The suburb has long been associated with Western Australia's wealthiest and oldest families. Their prosperity
48-731: A Presbyterian church located at the corner of Venn and Keane Streets; and St Mary Star of the Sea , a Roman Catholic church located on Stirling Highway at McNeil Street. The suburb is serviced by Fremantle to Perth bus services and the CircleRoute bus route along Stirling Highway, and by Cottesloe and Mosman Park railway stations on the Fremantle line . All services are operated by the Public Transport Authority . From 1901 to 1968 and from 1974 to 1980 Peppermint Grove
72-530: A period from 1996 to 1998 when former Liberal member Allan Rocher held the seat as an independent , and from 2022 onwards. In the parliament of Western Australia, its Legislative Assembly electoral district is Cottesloe , held by David Honey , also of the Liberal Party. Western suburbs (Perth) The western suburbs (also known as the golden triangle ) are an informally defined group of suburbs of Perth , Western Australia, located west of
96-581: A road board, later to become the Peppermint Grove Shire Council – to this day, the smallest in Australia, at 1.1 km (0.42 sq mi). Peppermint Grove is situated between Stirling Highway on the west and the Swan River at Freshwater Bay to the east. It spans six blocks, with its main streets named after the first post-subdivision residents of the suburb – McNeil, Forrest, Leake, Irvine, Keane, Johnston and Venn. At
120-607: A series of arguments with the colonial authorities of the day, Butler left for Sydney in October 1835, but did not dispose of the property. After the death of Butler's wife, Ann, in 1886, a syndicate of businessmen, including Alexander Forrest and George Leake , persuaded Butler's children to sell the land. In 1891, it was subdivided and lots were sold for £7 to £12 each. Two of the earliest residents were Edward Vivien Harvey Keane , Lord Mayor of Perth , and John Forrest , Premier of Western Australia . Four years later, residents got
144-544: A small part of Stirling into Subiaco, as part of a wider plan to reduce the number of councils in Perth from 30 to 16, the councils involved opposed the mergers, with the Shire of Peppermint Grove even spending ratepayer funds on launching legal action. In 2015, the proposal was scrapped. The state electoral districts of Churchlands , Cottesloe and Nedlands cover the western suburbs. These electoral districts were some of
168-702: A suburb of Perth in Western Australia . Given its proximity to Cottesloe , it is sometimes said to be in Cottesloe rather than Peppermint Grove. The Presbyterian Ladies' College is located behind the church. The church building was built in 1904 on land donated by Dr Daniel Kenny (1860-1915). It was designed by Australian architect Michael Cavanagh (1860–1941) in the Gothic Revival style. The wrought iron fence and entrance gate, also designed by Michael Cavanagh, were added in 1937. It
192-525: Is made of local freestone and tiles from Marseille in France . It cost nearly £2,000 to build. It was the second place of worship built in Peppermint Grove after St Columba's Presbyterian Church Hall, which was built on Venn Street in 1896 and later replaced by St Columba's Presbyterian Church on the corner of Venn and Keane Streets. The first service took place on 18 December 1904, when it
216-560: Is reflected in the many historical houses in the area, such as The Cliffe and the Federation Queen Anne style St Just . Colin Barnett , a former Premier of Western Australia , dubbed the suburb "Monaco of WA" due to its small size and concentration of wealth. It is also known as millionaire’s row and had the highest income of any suburb in Australia in 2022. At the time of European settlement and for some years after,
240-559: Is the smallest one in Australia, at 1.1 square kilometres (0.42 sq mi). The Towns of Cottesloe, Claremont and Mosman Park are also quite small, at 3.9 km (1.5 sq mi), 4.9 km (1.9 sq mi) and 4.3 km (1.7 sq mi) respectively. Due to the small size of some local councils, some provide shared services such as libraries and rubbish collection as it's impractical to do so individually. The councils of Cottesloe, Mosman Park and Peppermint Grove jointly fund and manage The Grove Library. In addition,
264-679: Is the state's only fully-selective public high school, and has students from all over Perth. St Mary Star of the Sea (Peppermint Grove, Western Australia) St Mary Star of the Sea is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia . Located in the Archdiocese of Perth , it is dedicated to Our Lady, Star of the Sea . The church building is located on Stirling Highway , between McNeil and Forrest streets in Peppermint Grove ,
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#1732775977487288-412: The 2016 Australian census , Peppermint Grove had a high-income, mostly British Isles-derived population of 1,636 people living in 613 dwellings. 58% of the residents were female. The ABS noted that 64% of the suburb's workforce were professionals or managers (five percentage points less than the 2011 Census). Cottesloe Primary School (established 1896) and Presbyterian Ladies' College are located within
312-572: The Town of Mosman Park . It houses the digital Grove Community History Library, which focuses on the people, places and events that have shaped the suburbs of Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove and Mosman Park . It was established in 2006 as a conventional paper-based community collection but became digital in 2011. Much of the collection is available online. There are two churches in Peppermint Grove: St Columba's Presbyterian Church ,
336-570: The safest seats in the state for the Liberal Party . The Division of Curtin covers the western suburbs. Kate Chaney is the division’s current federal politician. Suburbs of the western suburbs, with local government in brackets: Of these suburbs, nine were in Perth's top ten most expensive suburbs as of 2021. Those suburbs, starting from the most expensive, were Peppermint Grove, Dalkeith, Cottesloe, City Beach, Nedlands, Claremont, Swanbourne, Floreat and Mosman Park. As of 2021, all of
360-446: The area was thickly wooded with tuart , jarrah , red gum, banksia as well as the peppermint trees which gave the suburb its name. In 1830, John Butler, an innkeeper, was given a grant of 250 acres (1 km²) on Freshwater Bay, after unsuccessfully attempting to secure land at Claremont . From this location, he operated "The Bush Inn", a stone house he had built and rigged out with native mahogany , commonly known as jarrah. After
384-427: The city's central business district and north of the Swan River . The western suburbs are well known for high incomes, high house prices, riverfront mansions, private schools and proximity to ocean beaches. Local governments/councils in the western suburbs: Local governments/councils partially in the western suburbs: The western suburbs contains some unusually small local governments. The Shire of Peppermint Grove
408-590: The councils of Claremont, Nedlands and Subiaco, as well as the aforementioned councils form the Western Suburbs Library Group, which have a shared catalogue and membership database. The councils of Cambridge, Claremont, Cottesloe, Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove and Subiaco provide a shared rubbish collection service, under the Western Metropolitan Regional Council. Proposals to merge local governments in
432-486: The highest number of students of any school in Western Australia, at 2,797 and 2,404 respectively. Churchlands had a record of 34 transportable classrooms in 2018. In 2020, Bob Hawke College opened to alleviate some of the pressure on these two schools. The school is planned to have a capacity of 2,000 students in 2025. The only other public high school in the western suburbs is Perth Modern School , which
456-464: The suburb, as are the shire council office and the Grove Library on Stirling Highway, a small shopping centre opposite Cottesloe 's Napoleon Street shopping area, and reserves along the riverfront, most notably Manners Hill Park and Keanes Point Reserve, which offer recreational facilities and jetties. The Grove Library is funded by the Town of Cottesloe , the Shire of Peppermint Grove and
480-614: The western suburbs are generally met with opposition from residents. Most recently in 2014, when the Barnett Government released the Local Government Advisory Board report on metropolitan local government reform recommending the amalgamation of Claremont, Cottesloe, Mosman Park, Nedlands and Peppermint Grove into a new council tentatively named the City of Riversea, and the absorption of Cambridge and
504-416: The western suburbs had a median house price above $ 1,000,000 (save for Karrakatta, for which there was no data). At the top end, Peppermint Grove had a median price of $ 2,995,000, while Wembley Downs had the lowest median price of $ 1,117,500. The western suburbs have two local newspapers: the local print edition of Seven West Media's PerthNow and The Post , which is independent. Private schools in
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#1732775977487528-432: The western suburbs include Christ Church Grammar School , Hale School , Iona Presentation College , John XXIII College , Methodist Ladies' College , Newman College , Presbyterian Ladies' College , Scotch College and St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls . These schools are some of the most prestigious, high achieving and expensive schools in Western Australia. There is currently a shortage of public high schools in
552-447: The western suburbs. In 2000, Hollywood Senior High School and Swanbourne Senior High School were merged to form Shenton College , and in 2005, City Beach Senior High School was shut down. This meant that the only comprehensive high schools in the western suburbs after 2005 were Churchlands Senior High School and Shenton College. In the 2010s, the student enrolment at these schools increased rapidly. As of 2021, these two schools have
576-404: Was part of the federal Fremantle electorate, since 1934 a notional Labor seat. Its most prominent member was wartime Prime Minister John Curtin , a Cottesloe resident. Since 1980 it has been part of the federal division of Curtin . Until 2022, Curtin was regarded as a safe seat for the centre right Liberal Party , which has held the seat continually since its inception, with the exception of
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